#carl mydans

People gather on the streets for New Year’s Celebration, Tokyo, 1949

Ph. Carl Mydans

Carl Mydans. Foggy night near the Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus. London, England. 1952

Poor In America (1936)

A mother in a family of nine holds one of her children as another child stands beside her. She is wearing a feed sack as a skirt. The family was photographed by Carl Mydans, a New Deal photographer, in 1936. He saw them living in a field next to U.S. 70 in Tennessee, near the Tennessee River.

Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)